Definitions for bonfire

bonfire bon·fire

Spelling: [bon-fahyuh r]
IPA: /ˈbɒnˌfaɪər/

Bonfire is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 176 anagrams from letters in bonfire (befinor).

Definitions for bonfire

noun

  1. a large fire built in the open air, for warmth, entertainment, or celebration, to burn leaves, garbage, etc., or as a signal.
  2. any fire built in the open.

Origin of bonfire

1375-1425; late Middle English bone fire, i.e., a fire with bones for fuel

Examples for bonfire

She had a black smudge from the end of the beanpole, which had been in a bonfire, across her forehead.

But bonfire of the Vanities this is not, and that is unfortunate, though the cultural references might be spot on.

In one corner, a pile of Apple iPads and Google glasses are torched in a bonfire.

Marc Wortman is the author, among other books, of The bonfire: The Siege and Burning of Atlanta.

Let us get to windward and see what they are doing on the other side of the bonfire.

Her face flamed at him, the bonfire's light when prejudice is burned.

Everyone wanted to know the outcome of in this tropical version of bonfire of the Vanities.

As if he were not capable of controlling a raft or a bonfire!

If I should try just once to tell her what she ought to do she'd flare up like a bonfire.

Some have said that about my book, The bonfire, about Atlanta in the Civil War.

Word Value for bonfire
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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